Category: Theory
The Tower of Babel: A Pattern of Divine Corporate Justice
Why did God scatter the builders of Babel? This iconic story is more than a myth; it reveals a profound divine policy against unchecked ambition and empire-building. Explore how the Tower of Babel prefigures God’s justice, his stance on prideful nations, and the timeless lessons for humanity.
Five Reductios of Mariolatry
She is qualifiedly Mother of God, and not the Queen of Heaven. And certainly not the Spouse of the Holy Spirit. First posted August 4, 2024; appendix added November 15, 2024. The standard […]
Books Recommended by My Twitter Followers for My Teen Sons
I asked my Twitter followers for book recommendations. I asked them to “kindly list the most eye-opening books (author & title) that my sons (bright teen and tween) should read before age 20, […]
A Defense of Sola Scriptura
Here is a fundamental question of (the methodology of) theology: According to what rule, or rules, should we determine our doctrines about the things of God? This question asks about our regula fidei, […]
A Trip to the Library
This post was updated Sept. 18, 2024, after the launch of the ZWIBook flash drives. It used to be that a visit to the library was something to celebrate. One wandered the stacks, […]
How Big Pharma uses Wikipedia to push health propaganda
Guest post by Sharyl Attkisson. I don’t often host writings of other people on this blog, but I’ll make an exception for Sharyl, whose book, Follow the Science: How Big Pharma Misleads, Obscures, […]
On Being “Rich Toward God”
“But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou has provided? So is he that layeth up treasure […]
The Daily Offload #5
LinkedIn illustrates how corporations waste influence control your time. The bottom-feeders at LinkedIn have notification settings with 13 top-level categories and many, many sub- and sub-sub-categories, including “on” switches hidden behind tabs. The […]
The Daily Offload #3
Shorter, this time. Is evangelicalism dead? Basham’s Shepherds for Sale continues to dominate my feed on Twitter. It’s popular, I suspect, because it makes a case that Protestant theological conservatives have been waiting […]
The Daily Offload #2
Yeah, this is too long for a “Daily Offload.” I’ll make future installments much shorter. 1. Megan Basham’s criticism of Gavin Ortlund. Basham is a Christian conservative who wrote a book published three […]
